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Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Blueprints

By : Francesco Sapio
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Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Blueprints

By: Francesco Sapio

Overview of this book

Flexible, powerful, and full of rich features, Unity 5 is the engine of choice for AAA 2D and 3D game development. With comprehensive support for over 20 different platforms, Unity boasts a host of great new functions for making 2D games. Learn how to leverage these new options into awesome 2D games by building three complete game projects with the Unity game tutorials in this hands-on book. Get started with a quick overview of the principle concepts and techniques needed for making 2D games with Unity, then dive straight in to practical development. Build your own version of Super Mario Brothers as you learn how to animate sprites, work with physics, and construct brilliant UIs in order to create a platformer game. Go on a quest to create a RPG game discovering NPC design, event triggers, and AI programming. Finally, put your skills to the test against a real challenge - designing and constructing a complex strategy game that will draw on and develop all your previously learned skills.

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Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Blueprints
Francesco Sapio
Sep, 2016 | 252 pages
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Blueprints
Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Blueprints
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Sprites
Sprites
2D mode
Custom packages
Dealing with sprites
Our character makes its first steps
Summary
2
Animations
Animations
Animating sprites
The Animator
The game
Summary
3
Physics
Physics
2D physics
Letting the character move
Building a cool level
Summary
4
Level Design
Level Design
Tiled for 2D level design
Approaching UI
Game handler
Adding enemies
Summary
5
Creating Our Own RPG
Creating Our Own RPG
Role-Playing Games
Getting ready
Importing the level
Slicing the sprites for our hero
Creating our hero
Dressing up our hero
Giving the power of movement to our hero
Animating the hero
Summary
6
AI and Pathfinding
AI and Pathfinding
Pathfinding
AStar Algorithm in Unity
Using pathfinding for enemies
Summary
7
Tower Defense Basics
Tower Defense Basics
Tower Defense games
Getting ready
Setting up the scene and creating the map
Bullets
Towers
Enemies
Summary
8
User Interface for the Tower Defense Game
User Interface for the Tower Defense Game
Getting ready
Designing the UI
Creating a lives counter
Implementing a money system
The tower seller
Upgrading the towers
Summary
9
Finishing the Tower Defense Game
Finishing the Tower Defense Game
Getting ready
Waypoints for enemies
Integrating the UI into the game
Placing the towers
Creating an enemy spawner
Finishing the gameplay
Upgrading towers
Practice makes perfect
Summary
Goodbye

Dressing up our hero

To make our character more interesting, let's add some items to the player. Drag the following sprites from the Project panel onto the Player object:

  • roguelikeChar_transparent6_0, rename it to Hair and set the Order in Layer variable to 11

  • roguelikeChar_transparent3_0, rename it to Top and set the Order in Layer variable to 12

  • roguelikeChar_transparent2_0, rename it to Bottoms and set the Order in Layer variable to 11

  • roguelikeChar_transparent5_0, rename it to Weapon and set the Order in Layer variable to 13

  • roguelikeChar_transparent4_0, rename it to Shield and set the Order in Layer variable to 14

  • roguelikeChar_transparent7_8, rename it to Helmet and set the Order in Layer variable to 12

Reset the Rect Transform for all of the preceding objects, and as a result, our hero should be cool, as below:

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